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During the first half of 2002, the Council’s Spanish Presidency achieved the same kind of results as the current Spanish government is achieving in Spanish internal affairs. It was looking back instead of forward. The government’s priorities were to even further withdraw from the economy and to strengthen the authoritarian and militarised character of what remains of the government, thus creating greater scope for the rulers and less for critical citizens. It appeared to be an attempt to cast the entire European Union back into the nineteenth century, the era before the rise of the labour movement and the environmental movement, and before the introduction of universal suffrage.
Fortunately, parliament has corrected a proposal on protecting prominent people, and the Spanish Presidency, in its opposition to my report on the market for public transport, did not manage to find a majority to enforce large-scale privatisations.
The Seville Summit has done nothing to solve the financial problems which stand in the way of EU enlargement, and failed to reach agreement on 14 EU agencies for which a chair is yet to be found, but has once against spoken out against immigration without offering a solution. In short, it was a large-scale pass-the-buck operation."@en1
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